Let me have one, dude. Those are bleeping awesome!

Im not really sure if the original beta had problems with hacks, or just extreme balance issues combined with player skill and pc performance ranges being too extreme as well, making it feel like everyone was cheating.

My rig wasn't that bad for the time, but with an Intel e6750 core 2 @3.2ghz, an 8800gt and 2 gigs on XP the game played worse than Crysis at times, in moments with a high amount of onscreen action, which is often when you are to trying to aim at people.

I'd clumsily try to hit someone once before they kill me with 1 or 2 shots from a Ntec ,if they were really good. And other people i would run into often seemed to either massacre me or me them. Rarely would it seem pretty even or at least close to it, making me think it could be connection issues.

But, there were times certain notorius players would be around for hours, and you couldn't be in his sight without being instakilled by a headshot from a mile away. It would drive me crazy but i could never actually find someone cheating without having kill replays or some kind spectating. I always suspected hacks, but who knows.

Fire that retard.

Noone likes to see the vocal minority whinning, but if you dont have the vision to see the game through to the end or the wisdom to take suggestions from others, then you don't belong in the position you are in.

The reason the game industry is dying is because airheads sitting at desks don't know enough about games, gamers or development. With games taking 100 man teams years to complete, having an idiot stand over the real workers shoulders and do nothing but stifle thier creativity and push them to work faster towards profit with no real passion for the finished product is the real problem.

Get some real gamers into those suits, and let them make games they love. Games are Art, and they need artists to create them, not business men.

Fallen Earth should have won this, i think.

don't forget me!

would love a key, thanks.

I definately agree, without shadows everything seems to float on top of the background. Other than that it looks good, and reminds me of Ultima Online.

Sad to hear that people look at the sandbox style as a design flaw.

It reflects the way 10 years of financial failure for mmo companies has effected the industry.

Employees canned on the regular, teams broken, companies split or dissolved. Now an entire genre of gaming bites the dust. Why?.... Because WoW is the only truly successful mmo, and it isn't a sandbox game.

Is it so hard to realise that all those other mmos sucked? You could make an MMO about sweeping dust off the moon, and if it was fun, people would play it.

Don't hate the sandbox, hate the city workers who placed the sandbox in the middle of a landfil, or the fact noone cared when 100,000 people said " that idea sucks! ", because there was money to be made from it.

Originally posted by pye088j

Aye they could certainly be coming from anywhere. With wow I can understand randomly sending mails, because of the size of it. Chances are you´ll hit someone sooner or later. FFXIV though must be alot harder and that´s why I don´t quite understand why i´m targetted.

I don´t post about mmo´s outside of mmorpg but i am a member on many other forums related to gaming so any one of those might have had an account misshap/sold info or whatever. I just don´t think the playerbase is that large in FFXIV that randomly spamming mail adresses would give the results they´re looking for.

 Definately makes sense that someone could get our emails from a site and spam randomly til they hit a WoW player, but it's odd how often someone was hacked immediately after resubbing, after authenticators were introduced. Those numbers could be random chance due to the fact a million people probably resub every month, but it stands out to me.

And i don't think spamming the same people and trying to get accounts from other games would be a waste of time, the results would easily be worth the effort if there is almost no effort at all being put into it, and it's not as if once the word gets out the scam is over....people have know about it happening with WoW for a year now and it doesn't stop.

FFXIV is new enough that those accounts of people who got to max level in a week are probably worth enough to make it all worth doing.

Lol, i got one addressed from Blizzard  trying to scam my non existant Aion account also.

Alot of people never fell for the phishmail and still ended up getting their accounts stolen. I actually started getting them after my account was taken (the first time). So my guess was that however they got my account, at that point they got my email address with it.

My account was stolen, returned and stolen again the instant my one month of sub ended. Afterwards i recieved an email saying my account has been locked due to suspicion of illegal account buying/selling activity. I instantly closed the email and tried to login using the game, and got the message my account was locked. Then i tried the site without using any email links or anything and got the same message.

Not from my end it hasn't.

My account was stolen first in Jan. Took about a month to get the account back and by March it was stolen again. They never helped me the second time and instead locked my account for suspicion of illegal account trading activity.

I've been waiting for replies to multiple emails to support but haven't recieved any reply or remedy, nor had any action taken to this day, Oct. 11.

For 2 weeks after this happened i tried calling BIizz at all hours of the day and kept getting an automated message saying to go to the website. I bought the game at midnight on release day in Nov 04, and have paid for about 60+ months of sub time since. I was a loyal customer, but i get the message.

Oh well, The game was more often frustrating than fun, more and more so since release. To bad the company fired most of the devs who made the game, i think they had a really special team at one point, but suits in desks always think their decisions are the sole reason for a products success, so they got rid of everyone when they finished working. Which is like a pro athelete purposely dismembering himself because he somehow thinks his brain is enough, sure you may even be able to buy some really nice prosthetics, they may even be stronger than your original limbs, but you will never be able to use those fake new limbs as well as you could use the real ones. The brain and limbs were great together, but less than average when seperated. And no matter how good the replacements are, they will never work exactly like the originals.

I never received any of those scam emails until after my account was hacked.

It was after i contacted Blizzard and had my account returned that i started getting them. They aren't very convincing anyways, 99% of them don't even capitalize, spell properly or use half decent grammar. Once they started coming they never stopped and come at the rate of 1-5 a day, every day, ever since. I even get emails from them trying to scam NCSoft accounts. I don't even have one and the emails are addressed from Blizzard, lol.

After I got my account back, i played for a month and quit again. Not even a week later, i planned to subscribe for another month or so, and my account was already stolen again. Later that day, i recieved a real looking email saying my account has been locked due to an investigation about account selling/buying. Sure enough, i try to login again and it says the account is locked.

Emailed Blizz a few times, recieved automated responses and never heard a thing again.

Originally posted by Dudek28

Why would a company whos making close to a billion dollars a year, scam items off characters to make a few extra bucks? Doesnt make much sense to me.

 Wasn't it just like 6 months to a year ago when everyone was talking about Activision-Blizzard not being able to make a profit while having the 2 most successful and best selling games ever at the same time? Doesn't sound like everyone there is making good decisions, at least one person at that point was not for sure.

Originally posted by Thane

why should they acrtually "make up reasons" to ban you?

they could just ban you for whatever they want, it's THEIR server, that's what people often forget.

 

you actually have no rights at all but to stfu :)

"Wii b4NNd h1m cuz h3 wuz a n00b" is bad PR, lol

even Blizzivision / Actizzard wouldn't go that far. Besides, how hard is it to type a lie.

AND it IS thier server, not the customers, that's the problem. They are notorious for doing things that piss off  huge percentages of thier players, monthly. 

They own it, run it and play it. If they didn't like you, why wouldn't they ban you? For your $15 a month? Not much weight to throw around is it? What if i worked there and hated your guts, and i also knew someone who COULD terminate your account "by mistake", how hard would it be to make it happen? Few poeple can answer that, we can all guess.

Dungeon Fighter does look pretty cool. Not sure how long a 2d sidescoller will hold my attention but i will give it a try.

And thanks for the link, it worked. So here are 2 more Vindictus keys for anyone still looking for one.

E194B66AE3DA4EF0819E

E1A8CD148298446FB3C7

 

Would love to try Vindictus if anyone still has a spare key.

Thanks.

Good video.

I wish devs would remember how to make great games, then make those games massively multiplayer.

When i first got into mmos, i loved playing video games. And when those games started being playable over the internet they became so much better, AND replayable forever.

But with so much money to be made, everyone seems to forget to make a good game, and just tries to get a subscription based business going as fast as possible to make themselves rich, which doesn't work. I guess it IS possible, but with the way internet society works i'm guessing you can only have one of those at a time. If the majority chooses it, it will become a hub for the masses to flock towards.

But, even what i consider the king of  mmos, the only hugely succcessful mmo game that has consistantly kept massive amounts of players since launch, would probably be unanimously considered complete garbage if it were a stand-alone game without the online group and competitive aspects. Whether you love it, hate it or think it's "good enough because we are mmo crack fiends, who need our fix and will take what we can get", as it is now.

I used to dream of amazing action rpg games with massive freeroaming multiplayer worlds when i played the console games of my youth, but that dream faded somewhere between phantasy star online, world of warcraft, vanguard and age of conan.

Since then, i've just been looking for any good game to play and taking whatever i find. I realised that while signing up for a beta and being asked what my 5 favorite games were, in reverse order starting from now and going back in time. It was really hard for me to start the list, lol.

Unlike RPGs, First Person Shooters have continued to advance along a steady path and have slowly increased thier multi-playerability. Which is probably why games like MW2 do so well even with rampant cheating and harsh learning curves. At least the game is fun, online or off. Alot of COD fans even hated the game for things they feels the devs did wrong this time around, but they got enough right to be one of the best sellers of all time, or something like that.

Once games like MAG and others push those multiplayer numbers past the current limits and reach "massive" levels, maybe we will start seeing stuff like Morrowind Online possible too. Imagine a massively multiplayer Cryengine5 RPG, or Call of Duty: World War 3.... team USA vs team S.Korea for the Gold Cup!

Anyways, i hope TERA is going to be good.  It looks good in the videos i've seen so far, but who knows. I can't wait to try it for myself.

Oh, and about 30min into playing i happend to hit an analog stick on my 360 controller and i realised it was already enabled and had a preset control scheme.

The game actually plays pretty well with it besides a few small targeting issues. I can't find a way to target some quest objects and other thing i want to pick. Also when you are near more than one interactive object, after you select which one you want to use it won't let you. on both occations you can just grab your mouse and click though so it's not a big deal.

The only thing that bothers me that if i accidently change targets while im fighting it's always a pain trying to ''tab'' back to the mob right in front of me ,hitting me in the face. It seems like spamming my openner skill usually selects the mob i want, but i end up fumbling around toggling it on and then back off wasting more time, lol.

Overall it works well enough for me, i've beem using it more than not since i found out i could.

I just wanted to add another thumbs up for Champions Online.

This was my first night playing and i was on for about 7 hours, The only reason i logged was that it was time for server maintainence at 4am eastern, lol. I made it to level 13 and had a blast playing all night.

It looks like Aion may have some serious competition. I played Aion to level 27 on one character and loved it, but this was just as much fun so far. I hope both of them are alot of fun doing the high end stuff, but if so it's going to be hard t pick one.

Thanks to Mmorpg.com for the OB link, and to Cryptic for making a great game and doing the open beta. Having a ton of fun!